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The last weekend of March offered up a bunch of TV events, but you ain’t seen nothing yet. April 2013 brings showers of season and series premieres, finales and films to add to the already launched new seasons of “Game of Thrones,” Doctor Who” and others.

“Warehouse 13” comes back to Syfy, while the network debuts its long-in-the-works “Defiance.” Starz’ “Spartacus” says good-bye just in time for the exciting new series “Da Vinci’s Demons.” “The Borgias” on Showtime and “Veep” on HBO begin news seasons. Sundance debuts its crushing new drama “Rectify,” while DirecTV brings us its new crime thriller “Rogue” and NBC debuts “Hannibal.”

Check out the month’s big dates below, and come back here every Monday for weekly TV picks. As always, I’ll add to this list as new premieres are announced. All times listed are Central.

Monday, April 1
7:30 | “MAD,” Cartoon Network (season 4 premiere)
7 | “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” Bravo (season 8 premiere)
8 | “Are You Tougher than a Boy Scout? Man vs. Scout,” Nat Geo (series finale)
11 | “Kristen Schaal: Live at the Fillmore,” Comedy Central (stand-up special)

Tuesday, April 2
8 | “The New Normal,” NBC (season finale)
8 | “The Agony and the Ecstacy of Phil Spector,” BBC America (special)
8 | “Find Me My Man,” Oxygen (series premiere; “Titan of Love” Natalie Clarice helps Miami women find matches)

Wednesday, April 3
7 | “What Plants Talk About,” PBS (“Nature” premiere; look at how plants behave)
7 | “Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan,” Sony Movie Channel (doc)
8 | “Spies of Warsaw,” BBC America (miniseries premiere; spies work in Poland before WWII; conclusion April 10) Read my review here.
8 | “Rogue,” DirecTV Audience Network (series premiere; cop goes rogue after son is murdered)
8:30 | “How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life),” ABC (series premiere; single mom moves back home)
9 | “Best Ink,” Oxygen (season 2 premiere)
9 | “My Crazy Obsession,” TLC (season 2 premiere)
9 | “30 Days in May,” Showtime (doc premiere; Floyd Mayweather’s 2012 incarceration)

Thursday, April 4
6 | “Highway Thru Hell: After the Crash,” Nat Geo (season finale)
8 | “America’s Worst Tattoos,” TLC (series premiere; bad tatts)
8:30 | “Go On,” NBC (new night, time)
9 | “Hannibal,” NBC (series premiere; Hannibal Lecter before “Silence of the Lambs”)
9 | “Men at Work,” TBS (season premiere)
9 | “Tabatha Takes Over,” Bravo (season 5 premiere)
9 | “NY Ink,” TLC (season premiere)

Friday, April 5
7 | “A Woman’s World: The Defining Era of Women in Film,” TCM (Friday Night Spotlight event premiere; month of 17 films handpicked by Cher to illustrate the evolving roles of women from the late 1930s to the early ’50s)
8 | “Michael Feinstein’s American Songbook,” PBS (season 3 premiere; check local listings)
10 | “Vice,” HBO (news magazine premiere)

Saturday, April 6
11 a.m. | “My First Home,” TLC (season 5 premiere)
6 p.m. | “Garage Gold,” DIY Network (series premiere; family business cleans garages out, sells findings for profit)
7 | “A Mother’s Rage,” Lifetime (movie; mother gets in extreme to keep daughter safe)
8 | “Smash,” NBC (new night, time)
8 | “Battledogs,” Syfy (movie; super-canines battle werewolves)

Sunday, April 7
7 | “48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards,” CBS (special)
8 | “Mad Men,” AMC (season 6 premiere)
8 | “Gabriel Iglesias: Aloha Fluffy,” Comedy Central (stand-up special; also April 14)
8 | “Chopped All-Stars,” Food Network (season premiere)
8 | “Snapped,” Oxygen (season 10 premiere)
9 | “Defiant Requiem: Voices of Resistance,” PBS (special; artistic uprising in a Nazi concentration camp; check local listings)
9 | “Cocaine Wars: Narco Sub Mystery,” Nat Geo (special)
9 | “Sex Slaves: Windy City,” MSNBC (MSNBC Docs premiere; read more here)

Monday, April 8
8 | “50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus,” HBO (doc; Jewish-American couple Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus traveled to Nazi-controlled Vienna in 1939 to save a group of children from Holocaust)
9 | “Monday Mornings,” TNT (season finale)

Tuesday, April 9
7 | “Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character,” PBS (“American Masters” premiere)
8 | “Ready for Love,” NBC (series premiere; dating reality show)
8 | “Finding a Man,” Oxygen (series premiere; dating reality show)
8 | “Counting Cars,” History (season premiere)
8 | “Cocaine Wars: Drug Mules,” Nat Geo (special)
8:30 | “Carol Burnett and the Funny Ladies,” PBS (“Pioneers of Television” premiere)
9 | “Cougar Town,” TBS (2-hour season finale)
9 | “The Kandi Factory,” Bravo (series premiere; Kandi Burruss helps aspiring artists)

Wednesday, April 10
8 | “World’s Weirdest: Oddities,” Nat Geo WILD (season premiere)
8 | “Toy Hunter,” Travel (season 2 premiere)
9 | “Deep South Paranormal,” Syfy (series premiere; bayou-based team goes after ghosts)

Thursday, April 11
8 | “Farm Kings,” GAC (season premiere)
8:30 | “Go On,” NBC (season finale)
9 | “The Moment,” USA (series premiere; chance at dream careers)
9 | “The Graham Norton Show,” BBC America (season 13 premiere)

Friday, April 12
7 | “Mammoth: Back from the Dead,” Nat Geo (special; scientists race to revive long-extinct species)
8 | “Spartacus: War of the Damned,” Starz (series finale)
9 | “Da Vinci’s Demons,” Starz (series premiere; early days of Leonardo da Vinci)
9 | “Dates from Hell,” Investigation Discovery (season premiere)

Saturday, April 13
7 | “Bet on Your Baby,” ABC (game show premiere; families guess toddler’s next move for prizes)
7 | “Doors Open,” Ovation (movie; art heist story based on 2008 novel by crime writer Ian Rankin)
7 | “Stalkers,” Lifetime (movie premiere; inspired by a true story from “Whisper of Fear: The True Story of the Prosecutor Who Stalks the Stalkers,” by Rhonda Saunders)
8 | “Iyanla: Fix My Life,” OWN (season 2 premiere)
9 | “Louis C.K.: Oh My God,” HBO (stand-up special)
9 | “James May’s Man Lab,” BBC America (season 2 premiere)
9:30 | “Life with La Toya,” OWN (series premiere)

Sunday, April 14
7 | “The 80s: The Decade That Made Us,” Nat Geo (miniseries premiere; continues April 15, 16)
8 | “Nurse Jackie,” Showtime (season 5 premiere)
8 | “I Love Jennie,” MUN2 (season 3 premiere)
9 | “The Borgias,” Showtime (season 3 premiere)
9 | “Veep,” HBO (season 2 premiere)
9 | “Naked Castaway,” Discovery (special; Ed Stafford survives on uninhabited island for 60 days)
9 | “Orchestra of Exiles,” PBS (special; violinist Bronislaw Huberman saved 1,000 Jews from the Holocaust; check local listings)

Monday, April 15
4 | “Henry Hugglemonster,” Disney Junior (series premiere; family of fun-loving animals)
9 | “Defiance,” Syfy (series premiere; Earth after arrival of seven unique alien races)
9 | “Scam City,” Science Channel (series premiere; tactics of thieves, con men and scam artists)
9 | “Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines,” PBS (Independent Lens special; check local listings)
9 | “Burger Land,” Travel (series premiere)
9 | “Que Bonito Amor” (What a Beautiful Love), Univision (novella premiere; love and betrayal with heavy dose of Mariachi music)

Tuesday, April 16
7 | “Eat St.,” Cooking Channel (season premiere)
7 | “In Performance at the White House: Memphis Soul,” PBS (special; check local listings)
8 | “Deadliest Catch,” Discovery (season 9 premiere)
8 | Who Gets the Last Laugh,” TBS (series premiere; comedians engage in prank challenges in hidden camera contest)
8 | “Don’t Be Tardy…,” Bravo (season 2 premiere)
8 | “The Central Park Five,” PBS (special; check local listings)
9 | “Awkward,” MTV (season 3 premiere)
10:30 | “Flip or Flop,” HGTV (series premiere; couple flips properties)

Wednesday, April 17
7 | “Suburgatory,” ABC (season finale)
7 | “The Mystery of Eels,” PBS (Nature premiere; check local listings)
8 | “Australia’s First 4 Billion Years: Life Explodes,” PBS (NOVA premiere; check local listings)
8 | “Ghost Hunters,” Syfy (spring premiere)
8 | “Restaurant: Impossible,” Food Network (season premiere)
8 | “Locked Up Abroad,” Nat Geo (season premiere)
9 | “Guts with Michael Mosley,” PBS (special; check local listings)

Thursday, April 18
7 | “Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington,” HBO (doc premiere; tribute to war photographer)
9 | “Cooking Channel’s Masters,” Cooking Channel (special; Whoopi Goldberg and Ming Tsai chat)
10 | “Gigolos,” Showtime (season 4 premiere)

Friday, April 19
7 | “Chasing Ice,” Nat Geo (Doc; time-lapse cameras capture glacier changes over 10 years)
7:30 | “Need to Know,” PBS (current affairs series debut; check local listings)
8 | “Celebration: Stephanie Blythe Meets Kate Smith,” PBS (Live from the Lincoln Center premiere; check local listings)
9 | “Mystery Diners,” Food Network (season premiere)

Saturday, April 20
8:30 a.m. | “Fix This Yard,” A&E (season premiere)
9 a.m. | “Sell This House: Extreme,” A&E (season premiere)
3:30 p.m. | “America’s Best Bites,” Cooking Channel (series premiere; Natalie Forte finds local faves)
7 | “Mary and Martha,” HBO (movie; 2 women dedicate lives to malaria prevention)
7 | “Call Me Crazy: A Five Film,” Lifetime (movie; five interwoven stories about how everlasting bonds of love and family can overcome life’s most challenging hurdles)
7 | “BET Honors 2013,” Centric (awards show)
8 | “After All These Years,” Hallmark Movie Channel (movie; woman accused of killing her soon-to-be ex-husband)
8 | “Spoiled Rotten Pets,” Nat Geo WILD (series premiere; pampered pets)
9 | “Raising Whitley,” OWN (series premiere; Kym Whitley’s reality show)
11:30 | “Jim Norton: Please Be Offended,” Comedy Central (stand-up special)

Sunday, April 21
6 | “Cycling High: Doping to Win,” Nat Geo (series premiere; Lance Armstrong’s doping scandal)
7 | “All the Presidents Men Revisited,” Discovery (special)
7 | “Attenborough’s Ark,” Nat Geo WILD (special; David Attenborough reveals 10 creatures he’d most like to save from extinction)
7 | “Lovestruck: The Musical,” ABC Family (movie premiere; Broadway dancer/choreographer/mom wants to stop daughter from getting married so she can hit big time as dancer)
7 | “Dog and Beth: On the Hunt,” CMT (series premiere; Dog the Bounty Hunter is back on the hunt)
7 | “Giada in Paradise: Thailand,” Cooking Channel (special; Giada De Laurentiis in Thailand)
8 | “Remember Sunday,” ABC (Hallmark Hall of Fame movie; waitress maybe meets Mr. Right)
8 | “The King’s Skeleton: Richard III,” Smithsonian (special; discovery of the king’s remains)
9 | “The Bletchley Circle,” PBS (miniseries premiere; murder mystery)
9 | “What Would Ryan Lochte Do?” E! (series premiere; the Olympic swimmer gets a reality series)
9:30 | “Married To Jonas,” E! (season 2 premiere)

Monday, April 22
6 | “An Apology to Elephants,” HBO (doc premiere; explores abuse of elephants and how some people are reversing the trend)
7 | “Brain Games,” Nat Geo (series premiere; a look into our heads)
8 | “Rectify,” Sundance (series premiere; after 20 years in isolation on Death Row, man is found innocent and freed to world he no longer gets)
9 | “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” Food Network (season premiere)

Tuesday, April 23
7 | “Citizen Hearst,” Bio (doc premiere; 125-year history of Hearst Corp.)
8 | “Knife Fight,” Esquire, formerly G4 (series premiere; cooking battles)
9 | “The Getaway,” Esquire (series premiere; stars show us their fave cities)
9 | “Backyard Oil,” Discovery (series premiere; wildcat oil drilling in Appalachia)
9:30 | “Girl Code,” MTV (series premiere; spin-off of “Guy Code”)
10 | “KeSha: My Crazy Beautiful Life,” MTV (series premiere; look at pop star’s life)

Wednesday, April 24
7 | “Shut Up and Play the Hits,” EPIX (doc premiere; LCD Soundsystem’s farewell show)

Thursday, April 25

Friday, April 26
8 | “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel,” PBS (“Live From Lincoln Center” premiere)
10 | “Al Madrigal: Why is the Rabbit Crying?” Comedy Central (stand-up special)

Saturday, April 27
7 | “A Sister’s Revenge,” Lifetime (movie; woman tries to ruin man’s life)
7:30 | “World Championship Boxing,” HBO & HBO Latino (Martinez vs. Murray, Abregu vs. Decarie, Arreola vs. Stiverne)

Sunday, April 28
7 | “Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited–The Fourth Doctor,” BBC America (special)
7 | “Hummingbird,” Nat Geo WILD (special; secret world of the hummingbird)
8 | “The Good Wife,” CBS (season finale)

Monday, April 29
7 | “Bones,” Fox (season finale)
9 | “The Following,” Fox (season finale)
9 | “Warehouse 13,” Syfy (season 4.5 premiere)
9 | “The Big C,” Showtime (final season premiere)
9 | “The Undocumented,” PBS (“Independent Lens” premiere; more than 2,500 border crosses have died in 15 years)
9 | “Red, White & New,” Travel (series premiere; recent innovations in various areas)

Tuesday, April 30
6 | “Amazing Grace: Drama in the Black Church,” TV One (“Washington Watch” premiere)
7 | “The Undershepherd,” TV One (movie; minister is overcome by greed and ego)
8 | “Weird or What?” Syfy (series premiere; the bizarre & unexplained)
8 | “Airport 24/7: Miami,” Travel (season 2 premiere)
8 | “Crowd Rules,” CNBC (series premiere; small businesses compete)
9 | “Grimm,” NBC (new time and day premiere)
9:30 | “Inside Amy Schumer,” Comedy Central (series premiere; sketches and more)

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